Chris christie ends his bid for the 2024 republican us presidential nomination afterfailing to garner support for his campaign. identity crisis as the presidential election approaches in taiwan, some are asking about the island s past and future. live from our studio in singapore. ..this is bbc news. it s newsday. hi there, thank you for being with us. we start in ecuador, where soldiers are deployed to the city streets as the president declares war on armed gangs running out of control. the unrest began on sunday when the boss of one of the main drug trafficking gangs escaped from a maximum security prison. president daniel noboa has
Country. but due to the influence of the chinese communist party, we can t declare independence. that s how i see it. it s election time and people here are again facing those questions who are they and what relationship should they have with china? but today, no one, not even chang kai shek s old nationalist party, is campaigning for unification taiwan. translation: yeah, | i m taiwanese, but my ancestors come from china. we have the same blood. translation: and what about unification? i want us to be good friends. we can both make money together. i taiwan is very different from china. it has dozens of political parties and noisy, energetic elections. people are free to choose who they are and how to live, and the vast majority don t want that to change. rupert wingfield hayes,
You re live with bbc news. taiwan will choose a new president this coming weekend, in an election that china has called a choice between peace and war. china considers taiwan part of its own territory and it s been accused of interfering in the vote. but taiwan is a democracy, and its people are free to choose the government they want. 0ur asia correspondent rupert wingfield hayes reports. there was a time when statues of chang kai shek greeted you wherever you went on this island. today, the generalissimo is a rare sight. hundreds of his statues have been stashed away here at this riverside park, south of taipei. 94 year old fan shinjong isn t happy about what s being done to the legacy of his former leader. as a young soldier, fan fled china with chang in191l9, but he has never stopped feeling chinese. translation: taiwan is a province. - it is still a part of china.
Slowly, the differences between us will narrow until we are the same. then we can achieve unification. chang kai shek tried to turn taiwan into a mini version of the china he left behind. people here were taught there was no such thing as being taiwanese. this enormous memorial to chang kai shek still dominates the centre of taipei, but his project to turn taiwanese people into citizens of china ultimately failed. today, around 70% of people here say they are taiwanese, not chinese. 86 year old zhang chen is one of them. he spent ten years in this prison for supporting taiwan independence. in all, around 140,000 taiwanese were locked up for opposing chang kai shek s rule. zhang says he always felt taiwanese and his years in prison only strengthened that belief. translation: idon t. consider myself chinese. taiwan is already a great
The helicopter been fitted with systems to help prevent the fire. the actor, stephen fry, has called for an end to the use of real fur in the bearskin caps worn by the king s guard on duties such as guarding buckingham palace. he is backing an animal welfare campaign calling for them to be made with artificial fur instead. you re live with bbc news. taiwan will elect a new president this coming weekend in an election that china has called a choice between peace and war. taiwan s separation from china is seen in beijing as an aberration a left over from china s civil war. in 1949, the victorious communists drove china s nationalist leader chang kai shek from power. he fled to taiwan, setting up a rival government there. but today, taiwan is a democracy, and its people are free to choose the government they want. our asia correspondent rupert wingfield hayes reports.
For unification taiwan. translation: yeah, i m taiwanese, | but my ancestors come from china. | we have the same blood. translation: and what about unification? i want us to be good friends. we can both make money together. taiwan is very different from china. it has dozens of political parties and noisy, energetic elections. people are free to choose who they are and how to live, and the vast majority don t want that to change. rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news in taipei. the election on saturday the 13th will bring you all the news and reaction to the result. meta says it is adding new safety features to protect teenagers on facebook and instagram. all teens will now be placed automatically in the most restrictive content control settings on the apps and additional search terms will be limited on instagram.
On this island. today, the generalissimo is a rare sight. hundreds of his statues have been stashed away here at this riverside park, south of taipei. 94 year old fan shinjong isn t happy about what s being done to the legacy of his former leader. as a young soldier, fan fled china with chang in 1949, but he has never stopped feeling chinese. translation: taiwan is a province. it is still a part of china. slowly, the differences between us will narrow until we are the same. then we can achieve unification. chang kai shek tried to turn taiwan into a mini version of the china he left behind. people here were taught there was no such thing as being taiwanese. this enormous memorial to chang kai shek still dominates the centre of taipei. the centre of taipei, but his project to turn taiwanese people into citizens of china ultimately failed.
There was a time when statues of chang kai shek greeted you wherever you went on this island. today, the generalissimo is a rare sight. hundreds of his statues have been stashed away here at this riverside park, south of taipei. 94 year old fan shinjong isn t happy about what s being done to the legacy of his former leader. as a young soldier, fan fled china with chang in 1949, but he has never stopped feeling chinese. translation: taiwan is a province. it is still a part of china. slowly, the differences between us will narrow until we are the same. then we can achieve unification. chang kai shek tried to turn taiwan into a mini version of the china he left behind. people here were taught there was no such thing as being taiwanese. this enormous memorial to chang kai shek still dominates the center of taipei. but his project to turn taiwanese
People into citizens of china ultimately failed. today, around 70% of people here say they are taiwanese, not chinese. 86 year old zhang chen is one of them. he spent ten years in this prison for supporting taiwan independence. in all, around 140,000 taiwanese were locked up for opposing chang kai shek s rule. zhang says he always felt taiwanese and his years in prison only strengthened that belief. translation: idon t. consider myself chinese. taiwan is already a great country, but due to the influence of the chinese communist party, we can t declare independence. that s how i see it. it s election time and people here are again facing those questions who are they and what relationship should they have with china? but today no one, not even chang kai shek s old nationalist party is campaigning
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